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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doughboy who wrote (3808)	9/3/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 1998 Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative reporters. Why COSCO wants Long Beach The Chinese Overseas Shipping Co. is pushing harder than ever to secure a port facility at the former U.S. Naval Base in Long Beach, Calif. "Most major carriers have their own terminals in the U.S., and it is logical for COSCO, as a major carrier, to want to have their own terminal," explained Jiufeng Dong, the president of COSCO's North American subsidiary in a rare interview with the Journal of Commerce last week. "The site in Long Beach, with the proper layout plans, would satisfy our needs." Despite the fact that other ports have been offered, the wholly owned subsidiary of the People's Liberation Army seems determined that Long Beach is its best strategic location. And I believe the reason extends well beyond the better layout plans. Let's put aside, for a minute, all the strings that were pulled from the White House to put this project on the table in the first place. And let's examine the potential for a Long Beach base from the Chinese perspective. COSCO has a long history of being used by its Chinese military masters for spying and spreading chaos through smuggling of arms and drugs. "China's intelligence operatives are not stationed in embassies," explains Cmdr. Chip Beck, U.S. Naval Reserves (ret.) and a former CIA station chief. "They work out of banks, shipping companies and businesses." Several members of Congress have also confided that the Chinese use their industrial facilities and assets around the world as spy bases. Those suspicions are not limited to conservative Republicans, either. Even California Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have enough political sense to have urged a full national security review of the COSCO Long Beach deal. But, the question remains, why Long Beach? Why are the Chinese sold on that particular site? What is it beyond a suitable layout that makes the location so appealing? Long Beach has many advantages. Strategically, it is within earshot and sightseeing distance of all important commercial ports in California. It is relatively close to America's computer belt in the Silicon Valley. But more importantly, it is near the Pacific Missile Test Center, the U.S. Naval Weapons Station, Camp Pendleton and the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, the Fleet Anti-Sub Warfare School, Sub Flotilla 5, the Naval Command Station and the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. And, of course, as I've mentioned many times before, there's the Sea Launch facility a veritable stone's throw away in the same city. That's the project, now under investigation by the Justice Department, for possible security breaches. Sea Launch, which plans to blast satellites into space from equatorial ocean platforms, is a partnership of the Boeing Corp. and three foreign entities including one dominated by Russian intelligence. Moscow and Beijing have a formal agreement to share intelligence information, especially when it pertains to their "common adversary," the United States of America. Do you get the picture? Could it be any more obvious? Why, then, is the U.S. government still considering COSCO as a suitable tenant for such a sensitive port facility? It would seem like a no-brainer. Ah, but then we have a man in the White House who doesn't believe the Chinese pose a strategic threat to the United States. He is a man who approved commercial projects with Beijing that permitted the Chinese to improve their nuclear missile targeting on U.S. cities. He is a man whose largest campaign contributors in 1992 and 1996 have strong economic and/or espionage relationships with China. One of the brighter consequences of the abuse of power allegations currently swirling around the White House is that that they open up the possibility of derailing some truly evil and dangerous plans like the COSCO deal. This was once considered a done deal. But court challenges have stalled the administration's best efforts to steamroll through its agenda. Now, more than ever, is the time for mounting opposition pressure, lest America's future security be jeopardized because of a preoccupation on less serious matters. Joseph Farah's exclusive 64-page report on COSCO and related plans is available by calling toll-free: 1-888-622-2676. The report, which includes a three-hour audiotape interview with Farah on the subject, is available for $15 plus shipping and handling. A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at ktkz.com worldnetdaily.com

To: Doughboy who wrote (3808)	9/3/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Any lawyer can get a liar to lie under oath. Nothing was ever proven on Bush. The story had no legs as previously stated because it could not be verified. Different situation from Bubba where legions of women will testify to doing the hoky poky with the First Scumbag. Discovery is necessarily a broad type of an exercise under our system of justice. Clinton's problems with Judicial Watch have nothing to do with "luck" or "Judges inclined to grant discovery." Discovery is a party's right under the Rules of Civil Procedure and no Court approval or intervention is required unless the opposing party fails to comply. Typical of Clintonistas, you ignore that Clinton's problems are of his own making. The fact that he has been caught lies with no one but himself. As for your dire predictions for the Presidency, we'll just have to be more careful about the kinds of people we elect in the future. As BC proves, character does matter. The Clinton Presidency is a great lesson in that regard. JLA